Heating on or off when WFH

[Teachymummy]

I'm WFH (studying) today and looking for what most people do with regards to heating when WFH. It's just me rattling round in the house until 3pm.

Heating has been on 2 hours already and I've just turned it off and it's 14 degrees inside (-1 outside).

I want to leave it on all day tbh but it's so expensive (large house). No working thermostat so we manually turn it on and then off again.

Currently wearing a vest, dress, thermal tights, normal socks, slipper socks, slippers, a cardigan and oodie. And hot water bottle and flask of herbal tea. But I'm cold!

Got internal doors closed and curtains open to let the sun in.

Is it just one of those things that Is part of WFH having to put heating on?

I could drive to college and work there but it gets noisy in the library and then there's the cost of fuel and parking. Plus roads are like an ice rink here

I wfh permanently and only get one room. I bought a Dyson heater and only heat my office

I keep mine off to keep the heating bills down but have a plug in fleece blanket that is wrapped around me so I'm perfectly toasty!

My heating is off and the house is freezing but I’m sitting with my heated blanket draped over the chair I’m sitting in and I’m super toasty. Highly recommend.

£12 per day is a lot. I couldn't afford that. In the days I do go into the office I take my lunch with me and drink the free hot drinks that my lovely employer provides.

At home the heating is set at around 12 degrees so the house doesn't freeze and I have a plug in heated blanket to keep me warm. I heat me not the house.

I don't have mine on, I have a heated blanket and heated poncho, and a plug in fan heater next to me at knee level. I'm toasty.

I WFH, and am the only person in the house who seems to feel the cold ever anyway.

I'll stick the heating on for an hour occasionally if I get desperate, but by and large I manage using many of the tips given above. Plus I have two hot water bottles - I rest my feet on one and have the other for my lap/back etc. I read about the foot one on here, and it really does help.

I also live at the top of a bloody massive hill, so it takes me about an hour to cool down after getting back from the dog walk twice a day.

If I've got the heating on all day I make sure I make good use of it and put wet washing on airers Infront of radiators in the room I'm not using.

Generally I open all the windows until 12noon, and then close them and turn the heating on from 1pm as the room I'm in has the sun and it gets some lovely hot sun spots that the cats love to sprawl on. Once 1pm hits the sun is gone and it's cold.

It sounds though, with all those layers on that you are cold to the bone - the only way to warm up from that is to get moving, either a brisk walk outside for 10mins, or a YouTube dance workout or a few mins of star jumps whatever works for you.

Not working, but DH has been in the study most of the day. I've been here except for two hours - have only sorted lunch and cleaned downstairs toilet. We haven't felt the need to put the heating on - currently 16.9c in the living room. If you are cold, can you put an extra layer on, a blanket over your legs and use fingerless gloves and see how that helps. Obviously if you get to the point you know you're stone cold, you but put it on and set it to 17/18c for a bit of background heat.

My heating is on if I’m WFH. I can’t work cold and it makes me miserable. I need the heat, lol.

Turn all the other radiators off and just keep the one in the room you're in on.
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I recommend a heated fleece - you don't really need the heating on under that.

I have it on during the day, but set the thermostat to 17,.... then put it up to 18 or 18.5 later on in the day when we're all home. Keeps the edge off, but also never gets too warm which I really don't like anyway!

I have the heating on if I need it - I do get concerned about the cost but willing to try to make reductions elsewhere. I am not working all day to stay cold. One thing I have noticed is that lighting candles especially the little tea light ones will throw out quite a lot of heat if you have the door shut

I have it off. The app keeps turning it on in various rooms as the temperature drops, but I override it and keep it off.

I wear normal socks, slippers, then jeans or joggers, t-shirt and either a hoodie or an Oodie, depending on how cold it is, but usually after an hour of wearing the Oodie I'm too hot, so take it off.

I have a "hot water bottle" that I think is filled with some kind of gel, and I heat that up using a plug. It's like a muff, so I keep one hand in that all the time, swapping over when the other one gets cold (I do get cold hands and feet).

The heating is allowed to do it's thing and heat up where it thinks needs heating up from about 5pm onwards

I'm a pensioner and very disabled.. home most days. I have heating on all day.. my body won't take the cold.
I'm fully wrapped up too.
West Yorkshire here.

I depends on your house. My heating went off at 7.45 this morning and it's 18 degrees in my living room still.

If I'm home alone I'll turn the radiators in unused rooms down or off and just heat my work area.

We don't have fancy smart heating so it does mean going round and manually doing it.

If it's just me home I have an oil filled radiator in my office. If ten DD is home I put it on low on icey cold days and switch off most of the radiators and keep internal doors closed. I try to maximise having washing drying at the same time if the heating is on during the day.

Today has been literally freezing so the heating has been on 2 hrs in the morning and then 4 hrs in the evening from 4:30 pm when DD(17) arrives home from college. Our smart meter tells us that it has cost us just under £12 for gas & electric. On the day I wfh, it's on for 3 hrs in the morning and the residual heat is OK for me at the moment to not have the heating on again until 4:30pm. 7hrs of heating costs us £14 according to our smart meter. This cold spell is over by the weekend so it's only really been 5 days of freezing temperatures.

I have an electric heater in my office so I don’t need to heat the whole house. I can’t bear being so cold my nose drips in the house.

Are you in a home office or a small space as that can really help. If you aren’t can you move to somewhere smaller?
Make sure there is something on the floor under your feet like a rug to insulate. I find a blanket wrapped around yourself with hot water bottle at your feet helps, as warms your feet and the heat rises.
It sounds like you need a plug in heater on a low heat though. I can warm my body up as much as you like but if the air gets cold I just find it very distracting.

Unless you're utterly destitute, I really don't understand why anyone would spend the day suffering in a 14 degree house. Bonkers, and not good for the house either.

It's been around 0 degrees here today and my thermostat has been on 18 all day. The smart meter says that I've spent £5.40 on gas and electricity today - which is less than the cost of train ticket to work, or a glass of wine in the pub. Well worth it to be warm I'd say!

I do that too. While I'm at my desk my electric blanket goes either on my office Swopper (warms my bum) or on my lap. That's all the heating I need until the evening.

I have it on and off through the day, but I also wear an Oodie dressing gown as a house coat, and I have an electric blanket for when it's stupidly cold. I also have a dog who I prefer not to freeze, but she will happily lie in the garden in minus temperatures, so I'm not sure she cares 😂

Off.
Heated throw from Amazon. Uses less lecky than a light bulb apparently.
game changer.

I've stayed strong so far & not had it on but I must admit my toes, nose & fingers were cold this week. I'm thinking of getting a heated blanket.